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Watching daytime TV, my eye was caught by Cash in the Celebrity Attic.

One of the items they took to auction were some pristine Â£10 notes from about 1960. The presenter/auctioneer expert pointed out that they were pristine - and that one of them was from the first batch of new Â£10 notes, so that would attract a premium.

So, if you'd been wealthy enough to pick up some new Â£10 notes in 1960, how much would your investment be worth today flogged off at auction?

Firstly I went to http://eh.net to find out the value that might equate to, this site told me that ONE amount of Â£10 in 1960 would be worth the following today:

Â£165.86 using the retail price index

Â£167.61 using the GDP deflator

Â£383.04 using the average earnings

Â£463.07 using the per capita GDP

Â£539.14 using the share of GDP

The show were indicating that the set of FOUR of these would get Â£80-120.... so that's not a good investment is it.

At the auction the four Â£10 notes went for just Â£40 .. although tthe auctioneer withdrew them at that price.

For gold bugs, I looked that up too, average in 1960 was Â£35.27 and average in 2007 was Â£871. So instead of buying 4xÂ£10 notes if the original buyer had bought Â£35 of gold it'd now be worth about Â£800